Bears Get Crafty

poetry

This is my work space. Sometimes I swap the cat for my laptop and graphics tablet. I usually have flowers, a selection of bears, and cut out characters from projects I’m working on.

Are you an artist, illustrator, writer, musician, blogger, maker, knitter, craftsperson? What to you create and where? Do you have a studio, kitchen table, desk, armchair, tree? It would be lovely to see your creative space. Take a photo and share it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, anywhere else you can think of, with the hastag #mycreativeplace

I’ve been busy with various projects lately, most of which you’ll have to wait until they’re completed to find out about. I’ve stocked up my Etsy shop, so if you fancy a bit of C*******s shopping…. (it’s too soon, I just can’t say it yet). Anyway, there are lots of new things including this fox (as a print and card), new earrings (puffins, bears, radios, camper vans, cats…), bracelets and necklaces (with hares and other things), new badges (various animals, vintage radios, a bear tearing a clowns arm off..). Please take a look.

I’ve also drawn a few illustrations for my friend, Dom, over at inkology.co.uk. Pop over and enjoy his poems. My favourite is sort of spooky. 🙂

Lots of new things coming up: something about sad bears, which you may have seen developing if you follow me on Twitter, and more prints and other things will be appearing on Etsy.

Dr Dribble is a thoroughly despicable doctor. He is the invention of Dom Conlon. You can read about his terrible ways at Inkology.co.uk or click on the picture above to go straight to the animated version and hear and see Dom reading the first Dr Dribble poem.

Pictures by me.

If you enjoyed that, don’t forget to check out ‘Whale Eggs‘ for more animated silliness.

And don’t forget to keep paying attention, there will be more dreadful doctorings coming up soon. x

I’ve been busy experimenting with making little origami books in different forms and I thought I’d like to share the fun, so I’ve designed a poem book for you to download and make at home. The poem is from Astro Poetica by Dom Conlon. The illustrations are new.

All you need to do is download the PDF from Inkology here, print it out and get cutting, folding and glueing! Full instructions are included. You will need computer paper, glue and cardboard (a cereal box would be ideal). I used coated photo paper to print out my book, but it will work with any computer paper.

Once you’ve made it and know how it’s done you could experiment with making your own books, be creative, experiment with paper, ideas, words, pictures….